 Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years : Shadwell alone, of all my sons, is he. Who stands confirm'd in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some...  The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ... - Page 434by John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 786 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval : But Shad well's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day." To get rid of these... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 pages
...Tiut Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike throngh, and make a lucid interval : But Shadwell's genuine...admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. riesides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty : Thoughtless... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pages
...stupidity : I The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; Flecnoe was an Irishman by birth, and a Roman Catholic priest by profession ; but not so utterly... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretenee, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lueid interval i Fleenoe wu an Irhhman by W,th, and a Roman Catholie fna' by profettioni but not to... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 498 pages
...meaning make pretence, i But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; \ « Note I. f Note II. VOL. X. 2 E Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty ; Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 476 pages
...some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense ; ^ \> # Note I. f Note II. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through, and make a lucid interval ; But ShadwelPs genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day. Besides, his goodly fabric... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty : Thoughtless as monarch-oaks that shade the plain, And, spread in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. o design'd for thoughtless majesty : Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And spread in... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 pages
...full stupidity : The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike...Besides, his goodly fabric fills the eye, And seems design'd for thoughtless majesty : Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain, And, spread in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretenee, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. . F d @ lueid interval : But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.... | |
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